The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday evening that Anthropic poses an “unacceptable risk to national security,” marking the agency’s first rebuttal to the AI lab’s lawsuits challenging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last month to label the company a supply-chain risk. As part of its complaints, Anthropic had requested the court temporarily block the DOD from enforcing…
World, co-founded by Sam Altman, is dedicated to creating what it calls “proof of human” tech – ID verification tools for an internet increasingly overrun by AI-generated content of dubious quality. The connection isn’t lost that Altman’s other company, OpenAI, has…
Electricity is a key raw material for artificial intelligence, but new processing techniques outstrip the ability of data center operators to manage their relationship with the power grid, forcing them to throttle down by as much as 30%.
“There is so much power squandered…
The AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching an AI agent marketplace, allowing creators to “hire” AI assistants to help them with specific tasks, like resizing and remixing social content or editing product photos on Shopify.
With over 130 million worldwide users that skew Gen Z, Picsart is like a more advanced Canva for social media managers and content creators. The company reached…
Shawn Shen believes that AI will need to remember what it sees in order to succeed in the physical world. Shen’s company Memories.ai is using Nvidia AI tools to build the infrastructure for wearables and robotics to be able to remember and recall visual…
Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, on Monday with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET.
GTC – which stands for GPU Technology Conference – is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, running from March 16…
In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more significant: the loan origination system (LOS), which is the backbone of the lending industry.
Frustrated by the limitations of legacy software, Klaric (pictured left), a Bolivian native, and Escapa (pictured righ), a Spanish…
The biggest AI stories of the year (so far)
March 16, 2026
You can chart a year through product launches, or you can measure it in the greater moments that change the way we look at AI. The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry against sketchy products, and…
It’s been a whirlwind for NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen.
About six weeks ago, he introduced NanoClaw on Hacker News as a tiny, open source, secure alternative to the AI agent-building sensation OpenClaw, after he built it in a weekend coding binge. That post went viral.
Peacock is making a clear bet on two things: AI and mobile-first entertainment.
Based on what the streamer previewed at a press event yesterday, Peacock’s mobile app is about to look a whole lot more like a mix of TikTok, a casual gaming hub, and a streaming service.
From an AI-powered “Bravoverse” vertical video experience narrated by a digital avatar of TV host Andy Cohen to vertical live…
